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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1530s, "action of battering," from Middle French batterie , from Old French baterie (12c.) "beating, thrashing, assault," from batre "beat," from Latin battuere "beat" (see batter (v.)).\n \nMeaning shifted in Middle French from "bombardment" ("heavy blows" ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A coordinated group of electrochemical cells, each of which produces electricity by a chemical reaction between two substances (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battery%20(electricity)).
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
In baseball , the term battery refers collectively to the pitcher and the catcher , who may also be called batterymen or batterymates of one another.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Battery \Bat"ter*y\, n.; pl. Batteries . [F. batterie, fr. battre. See Batter , v. t.] The act of battering or beating. (Law) The unlawful beating of another. It includes every willful, angry and violent, or negligent touching of another's person or ...
Usage examples of battery.
But those red points in the accretion disc are Xeelee emplacements, Sugar Lumps, probably used as flak batteries.
She has too many batteries of accumulators, too many life-boats, too many bulkheads and airbreaks, too many and too much of everything.
If so, and if enough batteries of accumulators are left intact to give them anywhere nearly full power, we can get an acceleration that will make a lifeboat look sick.
It is proposed to instruct the coast-guard by means of ship platform batteries of one gun each, constructed exactly similar to the ports of a man-of-war, placed in a position in each district convenient for the drill of fifty men, and in a situation in which it may be rendered available for defence, as well as affording a range to sea for practice.
With Ceis plugged into the little battery amplifier, she sat on the back seat, weaving a spell of unseeing about the three vehicles.
The annulus was filled with tanks and air bottles and batteries and piping, all leaving more room inside the pressure hull.
Having arranged for the delivery of the antitoxin to the Willowbrook, Lee hurried back to the pediatric ICU, where Sunny was being hooked up to a battery of monitors.
His desk, unlike the others in the antrum, thrown together and wobbly, was an elaborate sectional apparatus with automatic drawers, a pop-up typewriter, modular shelving and a built-in pencil sharpener that operated on batteries.
I trust it will not be forgotten, that twenty-five pieces of heavy ordnance have been dragged to the different batteries, mounted, and, all but three, fought by seamen, except one artilleryman to point the guns.
The accuracy of the radar-COtitrolled main batteries, in the first gunnery exercises he had ordered, astounded him.
Chambersburg only two days when Scott ordered him to wait until some regular infantrymen and several batteries of artillery reached him to give spine to his volunteers.
The general was vainly searching for two batteries of artillery he had thought were shortly to arrive.
Once a division received its supplies, the food had to be divided among the brigades, then further separated and sent to the regiments and artillery batteries and cavalry units.
William Nelson Pendleton, had orders to bring his five batteries to Manassas as a single unit.
Tyler had several batteries of guns, each of which usually took up a quarter of a mile of road.